It doesn't look like I can get the Ximian Connector to work with Infineon's Exchange server because they have some stupid 2-stage login procedure. Why must large companies be so slow to do anything, yet somehow so quick to do the difficult stupid things? It's a pity - I was impressed with the simplicity of […]

The ongoing GNOME website changes produced some unpleasantly unconstructive reactions. This finally got to me when I saw someone insisting that nobody should try to help. Although this was just a lot of bizarrely vicious nonsense from a small group of unusually bitter people, it does give me an excuse to make a couple of […]

I'll be in Nuernberg again for the first half of next week.

Blogging is better when you are as mad as an owl.
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gcc 3.3 seems to have various bugs that are making life difficult for the Debian package maintainers. But I guess someone has to experience bugs first.

A while I ago I promised myself never to pay for any microsoft product ever again, what with the quality being so abysmal, but I have wanted to take a look at Windows XP for a while. I finally got hold of a copy and achieved blue screen in an as yet unprecedented five seconds […]

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A think I finally fixed the latest little gtkmm lifetime bug - an occasional leak. Harold Hopfes really dug deep into GTK+ and gtkmm with startling energy to help analyse the bug. He seems to be one of a team of gtkmm developers at EADS. As the bugzilla bug shows, we went backwards and […]